also on set, political reporter am buber phillips. and friends of the show, all. i have to start with you. let me do a couple of things before i pick up where peter left us there. you have security clearance currently. >> correct. >> why is that? >> well, i don't go in every day and look at classified material. i don't do that at all. i have it because, occasionally, i am called into the government for consultation. a few year acs ago, the dni ask me to chair a panel that was looking at a terrorist attack that almost occurred in the united states, when the christmas bomber in 2009/2010 almost blew up a plane over detroit, and we didn't detect it. i did that for six months. no pay, by the way. >> the white house is accusing some of the officials of monetizing their clearance, essentially. do you get paid for the work? >> i did not. none of us have a hotel on pennsylvania avenue with our name on it. >> i asked the white house about the idea that the president is accusing these officials of doing things that critics accused him of doing himself. their response was, n